the future of OSF/Dataverse integrations

[Philip Durbin]

Sherry and I will be meeting with Open Science Framework (OSF) folks on Monday, March 25th and I'm wondering if before then you can share with us any ideas you have for how to better integrate OSF and Dataverse.

As you may know, the older integration is one-way. An OSF user can push datasets into Dataverse. A newer integration allows pulling datasets into Dataverse. Please see https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.1/admin/integrations.html#open-science-framework-osf

This is a time for brainstorming. If you have ideas, please send them along!

Thanks!

Phil

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Philip Durbin
Software Developer for http://dataverse.org
http://www.iq.harvard.edu/people/philip-durbin

[Dieuwertje Bloemen]

Hi Phil,

For me a big issue with the current integration that OSF offers, is how it enables users to use their Dataverse instance as just a storage location, which in our case is a huge no-no for the active research phase. I think in general, the use case they allow for doesn't make a lot of sense workflow wise with the overall purpose of a Dataverse installation. But it's a bit too long ago to really remember how it exactly worked, and apparently, I can't test it anymore as the connection gives an error now...

Thanks for picking this up,

Dieuwertje

[Sherry Lake]

Hi Dieuwertje and Phil,

I totally agree about Dataverse not being a "storage" addOn. I have emailed and talked about the OSF/Dataverse integration for a very long time and have had little attention. I did get them to allow other non-Harvard Dataverses to connect - the drop down list and manually typing "Other" http and fix the integration to respect the "DatasetPublishPopupCustomText" and display that on publish from OSF.

And as you say, Dieuwertje, it's not working for you, it's not working for UVA's Dataverse (V5.14) - it is only showing me one Dataverse collection, when I have datasets in other collections, might be version/permission changes? But it is working with demo.dataverse.org (V6.1), so maybe a version issue, or how we have set up UVA Dataverse? But my token should give me access (show the dataverse collections), I have datasets in.

On the fact that Dataverse is not "storage", I have sent (and repeat once a year, or everytime there is a new OSF Project Manager) the following:

To me, Dataverse and Figshare are NOT "Storage add-ons" or "Storage" integrations - integration/add-on, YES, but not “storage”, they are archiving repositories. Maybe “archiving” isn’t a good word, but definitely not “storage”. Though I see why they are being (lumped together) and called “storage locations” since that’s the text “Storage providers” at the top of the list of files.

 

One thing I want to stress is that Dataverse (and Figshare) are not the same as the other storage options (Box, Amazon S3, Dropbox, Github, etc.). Dataverse and Figshare are repositories used for the “final” versions of research. Files made public in FigShare and Dataverse should be the final versions of files. 

 

I participated in the webinar for Internet Archive / OSF and as I listened to the workflow of “bagging” OSF registrations and then sending to IA…., I was thinking that process could also be done for Dataverse, either prepare “bags” for ingest (manually) to dataverse, or have OSF push the bag of a registration or a public project to a Dataverse dataset. Lots of possibility there!

 

I would love to talk about the possibilities, especially to talk about how to get Dataverse/OSF better integrated.

So maybe Dataverse shouldn't be a "addon", but another type "Archive for sharing"?

I am glad COS is giving us time to talk about problems and solutions.

Best,

Sherry

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[Philipp Conzett]

One of the DataverseNO partner institutions, the University of Oslo, is working on getting in place a national collaboration on OSF Institutions and is interested in enhancing the Dataverse - OSF integration. We are trying to figure out whether other organizations using Dataverse are interested in this as well. In that case we might want to explore opportunities of collaboration. Please let us know!

Thanks!

Philipp

[Sherry Lake]

Hi Philipp,

Please count me in on discussions and collaborations for OSF and Dataverse.

I've been trying for sooooo long to get this discussion started again.

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Sherry Lake

[Dieuwertje Bloemen]

I would also be interested in tagging along on this.

- Dieuwertje

[Philipp Conzett]

Thanks, Dieuwertje and Sherry. I'll pass this on to U Oslo.

Best, Philipp